NAME

DESCRIPTION

Amgtar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by
users directly. It uses GNU Tar to backup and restore data.

PROPERTIES

This section lists the properties that control amgtar´s functionality.
See amanda-applications(7) for information on application properties
and how they are configured.
ATIME-PRESERVE
If "YES" (the default), amgtar use the --atime-preserve=system
option of gnutar to not update the atime of all files accessed; if
"NO", gnutar will updates the atime for all files accessed. This
property works only if you have gnutar 1.15.90 or newer, if not,
you must set ATIME_PRESERVE to "NO".
CHECK-DEVICE
If "YES" (the default), amgtar checks that the device number
doesn´t change for each file. If "NO", changes in device number are
ignored. To ignore device numbers, tar must support the
--no-check-device option (gnutar 1.19.90 and newer). This option is
needed for some filesystems and devices on which device numbers
change frequently, such as LVM or FiberChannel.
COMMAND-OPTIONS
If set, theses options are passed asis to gtar. Each option must be
a different value of the property. Some option can break how amanda
do backup, use it with care.
Use:
property "COMMAND-OPTIONS" "--foo" "bar"
Do not use:
property "COMMAND-OPTIONS" "--foo bar"
DIRECTORY
If set, gnutar will backup from that directory instead of the
diskdevice set by the DLE. On restore, the data is restore in that
directory instead of the current working directory.
GNUTAR-LISTDIR
The directory where gnutar stores the database it uses to generate
incremental dumps. The default is set when Amanda is built.
GNUTAR-PATH
The path to the gnutar binary. The default is set when Amanda is
built.
INCLUDE-LIST-GLOB
A filename containing include glob expression for the restore
command.
EXCLUDE-LIST-GLOB
A filename containing exclude glob expression for the restore
command.
ONE-FILE-SYSTEM
If "YES" (the default), do not allow gnutar to cross filesystem
boundaries. If "NO", gnutar will cross filesystem boundaries. This
corresponds to the --one-filesystem option of gnutar.
TAR-BLOCKSIZE
Block size of Nx512 bytes (default N=20). This corresponds to the
--blocking-factor option of gnutar.
SPARSE
If "YES" (the default), gnutar will store sparse files efficiently.
If "NO", then the --sparse option is not given to gnutar, and it
will not try to detect sparse files.
NO-UNQUOTE
If "NO" (the default), gnutar doesn´t get the --no-unquote option
and the diskname can´t have some characters, eg. ´\´. If "YES",
then the --no-unquote option is given to gnutar and the diskname
can have any characters. This option is available only if you are
using tar-1.16 or newer.
ACLS
Default "NO". If "YES", gnutar will preserve ACL extended
attributes. This corresponds to the --acls gnutar option. Requires
a GNU Tar with nonstandard extended attribute patches from the
Fedora Project.
SELINUX
Default "NO". If "YES", gnutar will preserve SELinux extended
attributes on Linux. This corresponds to the --selinux gnutar
option. Requires a GNU Tar with nonstandard extended attribute
patches from the Fedora Project.
XATTRS
Default "NO". If "YES", gnutar will preserve all extended
attributes. This corresponds to the --xattrs gnutar option. If
enabled, this option also implies the ACLS and SELINUX properties,
regardless of their settings, as they are implemented as extended
attributes. Requires a GNU Tar with nonstandard extended attribute
patches from the Fedora Project.
EXIT-HANDLING
List which exit status of gtar are good or bad. eg. "1=GOOD 2=BAD",
exit status of 1 will produce a good backup, exit status of 2 will
give an error.
NORMAL
List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are
normal output from gtar. These output are in the "FAILED DUMP
DETAILS" section of the email report if the dump result is STRANGE
or FAILED. Default values:
"^could not open conf file"
"^Elapsed time:"
"^Throughput"
": socket ignored$"
": File .* shrunk by [0-9][0-9]* bytes, padding with zeros"
": Cannot add file .*: No such file or directory$"
": Error exit delayed from previous errors"
To treat one of these default patterns differently, specify it
explicitly in a different property.
IGNORE
List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that
amanda ignore. These output are never in the email report. Default
values:
": Directory is new$"
": Directory has been renamed"
To treat one of these default patterns differently, specify it
explicitly in a different property.
STRANGE
List all regex (POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax) that are
strange output from gtar. All gtar output that doesn´t match a
normal or ignore regex are strange by default. The result of the
dump is STRANGE if gtar produce a strange output. These output are
in the "FAILED DUMP DETAILS" section of the email report.

INCLUDEANDEXCLUDELISTS

This application supplies exclude lists via the GNU-tar--exclude-from
option. This option accepts normal shell-style wildcard expressions,
using * to match any number of characters and ? to match a single
character. Character classes are represented with [..], which will
match any of the characters in the brackets. Expressions can be
"anchored" to the base directory of the DLE by prefixing them with
"./". Without this prefix, they will match at any directory level.
Expressions that begin or end with a "/" will not match anything: to
completely exclude a directory, do not include the trailing slash.
Example expressions:
./temp-files # exclude top-level directory entirely
./temp-files/ # BAD: does nothing
/temp-files # BAD: does nothing
./temp-files/* # exclude directory contents; include directory
temp-files # exclude anything named "temp-files"
generated-* # exclude anything beginning with "generated-"
*.iso # exclude ISO files
proxy/local/cache # exclude "cache" in dir "local" in "proxy"
Similarly, include expressions are supplied to GNU-tar´s --files-from
option. This option ordinarily does not accept any sort of wildcards,
but amgtar "manually" applies glob pattern matching to include
expressions with only one slash. The expressions must still begin with
"./", so this effectively only allows expressions like "./[abc]*" or
"./*.txt".